It’s World Goth Day again, and I can’t help but want to write something. Although as I’ve noted before, I find May 22 as a marker for Gothdom completely arbitrary—it’s now the established day where all things Goth are celebrated. Would that Whan That Aprille Day enjoyed the same kind of success, but that’s aContinue reading “The More Things Change. . .”
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Authentic
Today, May 22, is World Goth Day, a day to celebrate and extol goth music (in all its derivations) and the goth subculture. I came upon a post on the Instagram page of The Darkness Calling (https://www.instagram.com/darknesscallingofficial/?hl=en), a page dedicated to goth/darkwave/electronic music. The page is itself the passion project of Jae and raises moneyContinue reading “Authentic”
Life Changing
40 years ago, MTV emerged and changed my life. I was an eccentric rising eighth grader about to switch schools again. Over the summer, I’d lounged at the local swim club, hung out with friends, and watched Raiders of the Lost Ark about a million times on hot sticky afternoons. I also discovered that guysContinue reading “Life Changing”
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